Assize or Assizes, in Old French originally "meeting, conference", may refer to judicial institutions or legal measures taken by those.

Judicial institutions

  • Courts of Assizes, a former judicial institution in England and Wales
  • Assize (Scotland), in Scots law a trial by jury
  • Assizes (Ireland), an obsolete judicial inquest (Court of Assize)
  • Cour d'assises, French court in charge of felonies
  • Corte d'Assise, Italian court
  • Council of Assizes, lawmaking body in New York after its capture from the Dutch
  • Court of assizes, criminal court in Belgium
  • European Assizes, a one-time assembly of the European Parliament and the national parliaments in 1990
  • Assize of Bread and Ale, an obsolete English statute regulating the price, weight, and quality of the bread and beer
  • Assize of Clarendon, 1166 act taken by King Henry II of England
  • Assize of darrein presentment, action over right to appoint to a benefice
  • Assize of mort d'ancestor, an obsolete action over inheritance of land
  • Assize of novel disseisin, an obsolete action to recover lands after dispossession
  • Assize of Northampton, additional legal measures taken by Henry II of England
  • Grand Assize, 1179 English law about land disputes
  • Assizes of Ariano, laws of the Kingdom of Sicily (1140)
  • Assizes of Jerusalem, collection of medieval legal treatises used by the Crusaders
  • Assizes of Romania, laws of the Latin Empire of Constantinople

Christianity

  • Great Assize, term for the Last Judgment

See also

  • Assize of Arms (disambiguation)
  • Black Assize of Exeter 1586
  • Black Assize of Oxford 1577
  • Bloody Assize of 1814
  • Bloody Assizes
  • Clerk of Assize, a position which existed England and Wales 1285–1971
  • Manchester Assize Courts, building in Manchester, England
  • Short assize, a medieval chess variant